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by tomc1985
3568 days ago
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What about a negative opinions? OSTRACIZED!
Didn't like someone's show HN? OSTRACIZED!
Didn't make your post happy enough? OSTRACIZED!
Cuss a bit? OSTRACIZED!
Offend the army of apple/react/nodejs/cloud/social fanatics? OSTRACIZED! Not that it matters, ostracization means losing a few HN epeen points, so meh :) (In the interest of keeping topicality, one could argue the above are examples of chilling effects in a community) |
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people who care to take part and comment here might be more sensitive to social approval than the median - the quest for approval might ba a motive to participate. Therefore the loss of a few points might be more of a loss for them. In the long run that is not so good for the diversity of opinions, but so it goes...